AMD Custom 0405 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3095 points
4% slightly better overall score
2957 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5138 points
27% slightly better gaming score
4037 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2486 points
2609 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2385 points
2522 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

71.27 points
35% slightly higher Blender score
52.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3.37 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
12 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

525th of 1,089
543rd of 1,089

Custom 0405 vs Core i7 X 980 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Custom 0405 performs better than the Core i7 X 980. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 980 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores than the Custom 0405. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Custom 0405. It also has more threads than the Custom 0405. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Custom 0405. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more L2 cache than the Custom 0405

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Custom 0405 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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